sufuria
Syllables: su·fu·ria/sʊ.fʊˈrɪ.ə/US/sʊ.fʊˈri.ə/
sufuria noun: a deep metal cooking pot with a flat base and no handles.
Noun
sufuria (plural sufurias)
- A deep metal cooking pot with a flat base and no handles.
- Two large sufurias. For baking and roasting. Obtained from Zanzibar. Large enough to hold fry-pan mentioned above. / One small sufuria. For native servants. The only way to prevent the master's sufuria being used.1891, S. Tristram Pruen, “Appendix: List of Supplies Necessary for One Person Travelling in Central Africa for One Year”, in The Arab and the African: Experiences in Eastern Equatorial Africa during...
- In a corner, he discovered a small amount of maize-flour in a bag among the utensils. He put this in a sufuria on a fire, added water and stirred it with a wooden spoon. He liked porridge in the morning.1967, James Ngugi [i.e., Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o], chapter 1, in A Grain of Wheat (African Writers Series; 36), London: Heinemann, →OCLC; republished Nairobi, Kenya; Kampala, Uganda: East African...
Examples of sufuria in a sentence
- Their food was even cooked separately, in a small sufuria the way it is done at home, [...]1972, Miriam Khamadi Were, The High School Gent (New Fiction from Africa series), Nairobi, Kenya: Oxford University Press, →OCLC, page 18:
- Without it, imparting academic knowledge is like carefully boiling milk in a dirty, greasy sufuria.1987, Priscilla Were, “The Importance of Children”, in The Kenyan We Want: An Approach to Social Education and Ethics, Nairobi, Kenya...
- A few days to uhuru, the local sufuria repairman, Bangarasio, was repairing my mother's sufurias.2000, Kiraitu Murungi, In the Mud of Politics (Acacia Biographies; 1), Nairobi: Acacia Stantex Publishers, →ISBN, page 5:
- Sometimes that lunch was in the form of three raw eggs and a sufuria because there were times Damiano thought it wise to cook in school during lunch hour.2002, Wahome Mutahi, Whispers & Camisassius: 14 Whispers’ Stories Published between 1991 and 1997, Nairobi: Seed Magazine, Consolata...
Forms of sufuria
| plural | sufurias |
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Origin of sufuria
Borrowed from Swahili sufuria, borrowed from Omani Arabic صفرية (ṣufriya, “cooking pot”), from صفر (“copper”) + ـية (-iyya).
Questions about sufuria
- What does sufuria mean?
- Sufuria means a deep metal cooking pot with a flat base and no handles.
- How do you use sufuria in a sentence?
- Their food was even cooked separately, in a small sufuria the way it is done at home, [...]
- What part of speech is sufuria?
- Sufuria is a noun.
- How do you pronounce sufuria?
- Sufuria is pronounced /sʊ.fʊˈrɪ.ə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of sufuria?
- The plural of sufuria is sufurias.
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